Creating Custom Uniprint Popup Packages for Mac

We are often asked how to create Uniprint popup packages that work on Mac clients. Pharos provides a simple graphical interface in the Pharos Administrator to help you create Windows-based popup packages, but creating and rolling out packages for the Mac can be a daunting task for non-Mac administrators.

We won’t get into customizing defaults via CUPS; we’ll leave that to a future post on the topic. Generally, there are two ways to install a Pharos queue on the Mac side. You can set them up with Pharos Popups or without. First, we’ll go through how to set them up without Popups. This is always a good method to use to acquire the driver you may use within the Popup package.

Please note that the screen shots in the attached document are from a mixture of Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan. Any differences will be minor except in Disk Utility.